Ah the 9am whisky on the train, such a treat 😄The consensus on this seems to be good, not great but promising. I suppose not everyone can get it right on their first try. We are a bit spoilt for choice with these new distilleries and most of them are putting out fantastic stuff. Let's see how these guys get on. Cheers!
We got Batch 2 in NZ, which had similar citrus vibes but also sweet with stone fruit and smoked pears also a smidge waxy on the nose - Quite enjoyed it but a bit pricey
For me this was like the Lochlea inaugural release. I wish the company well and it is decent if a little young and overpriced but it certainly did not set the heather on fire!
Phil: I know almost nothing about auto-focusing digital cameras, so take the following with a fair handful of NaCl, but: just from watching some of your vids and seeing the (often frustrating) results of when you've tried to get the camera to focus, the following comes to mind: 1. auto-focus takes a little time. Time that doesn't really fit well with a whisky tube vid like you're trying to create, which generally involves trying to compress a fair amount of information into a relatively short time-frame. 2. I'm not certain, but perhaps auto-focus works better on slower-moving objects? Typically you thrust the bottle, glass, whatever straight in front of the camera at a fair rate of knots (cf. 1 above). 3. holding something at arm's length close to a camera lens is unlikely to provide a particularly stable platform. having thrust it there your arm/hand is prone to continue moving about, which perhaps delays the auto-focus. Probably not a suggestion you'll want to hear, but: it may be easier/simpler/more successful to simply take some "still" images of the bottle/label/whatever else you're trying to show, in close-up form, prior to making the vid. Yes, that would then involved digital editing, which I quite understand is a whole can of worms, too.
I do need to take my time with it, that's for sure. Recording in that room makes everything much closer together, and we have less of the focus issue when recording downstairs. But I'm filming again tonight and will take all of these into action. Thank you!
I live on Harris. I'm drinking some while reading this. I'm a third way through a bottle opened just after release. To my taste it's too young, like there are still some fusel alcohols that haven't combined to make esters. It's hot and tastes like solvent in the finish. I agree with the cardboard taste as well. If it was beer I'd call it oxidation For me, form over substance. Unimpressed. Way too expensive.
The liquid, you could argue, has under performed vs Ardnamurchan, Torabhaig, Nc'Nean, etc. But as a 'first release', quite a hefty first release at that, it should've been smaller in numbers with a focus on smaller releases. They have a regular release on the way, but I've heard the new-make spirit is incredible, so the core is good. Just need work on the bits around it. But as I said, progress is the key here. It's been so well billed for years that hype may have built it up bigger than it should've been.
Agree with you 100% on this. It's just...nice. Without once raising the bar to anything higher.
Excited for the future, but yeah, this is just nice.
Ah the 9am whisky on the train, such a treat 😄The consensus on this seems to be good, not great but promising. I suppose not everyone can get it right on their first try. We are a bit spoilt for choice with these new distilleries and most of them are putting out fantastic stuff. Let's see how these guys get on. Cheers!
Absolutely! Couldn't have said it better.
Picked up batch 6&7 as i’m also a massive fan of the gin - haven’t popped either but interesting, and refreshing, to hear an alternative take. Cheers!
Stunning gin. Never words I thought I'd type.
We got Batch 2 in NZ, which had similar citrus vibes but also sweet with stone fruit and smoked pears also a smidge waxy on the nose - Quite enjoyed it but a bit pricey
Certainly worth ticking off the list.
For me this was like the Lochlea inaugural release. I wish the company well and it is decent if a little young and overpriced but it certainly did not set the heather on fire!
Perfectly summarised.
How would you compare it to Edradour? Bc I love that so if its almost candied orange like that I think I'd like it
It's not as easy or rich as a drink as Edradour 10 is, but it has enough gentleness and character to offer you some contrast.
Phil: I know almost nothing about auto-focusing digital cameras, so take the following with a fair handful of NaCl, but: just from watching some of your vids and seeing the (often frustrating) results of when you've tried to get the camera to focus, the following comes to mind:
1. auto-focus takes a little time. Time that doesn't really fit well with a whisky tube vid like you're trying to create, which generally involves trying to compress a fair amount of information into a relatively short time-frame.
2. I'm not certain, but perhaps auto-focus works better on slower-moving objects? Typically you thrust the bottle, glass, whatever straight in front of the camera at a fair rate of knots (cf. 1 above).
3. holding something at arm's length close to a camera lens is unlikely to provide a particularly stable platform. having thrust it there your arm/hand is prone to continue moving about, which perhaps delays the auto-focus.
Probably not a suggestion you'll want to hear, but: it may be easier/simpler/more successful to simply take some "still" images of the bottle/label/whatever else you're trying to show, in close-up form, prior to making the vid. Yes, that would then involved digital editing, which I quite understand is a whole can of worms, too.
I do need to take my time with it, that's for sure. Recording in that room makes everything much closer together, and we have less of the focus issue when recording downstairs. But I'm filming again tonight and will take all of these into action. Thank you!
I live on Harris. I'm drinking some while reading this. I'm a third way through a bottle opened just after release. To my taste it's too young, like there are still some fusel alcohols that haven't combined to make esters. It's hot and tastes like solvent in the finish. I agree with the cardboard taste as well. If it was beer I'd call it oxidation
For me, form over substance. Unimpressed. Way too expensive.
The liquid, you could argue, has under performed vs Ardnamurchan, Torabhaig, Nc'Nean, etc. But as a 'first release', quite a hefty first release at that, it should've been smaller in numbers with a focus on smaller releases.
They have a regular release on the way, but I've heard the new-make spirit is incredible, so the core is good. Just need work on the bits around it. But as I said, progress is the key here. It's been so well billed for years that hype may have built it up bigger than it should've been.